This is a text/code companion for my YouTube video on using Tesseract OCR from Python.

If you would like a visual walkthrough and explanation, you can watch the video.

You must have Tesseract downloaded and installed on your machine: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

You must have python3 downloaded and installed on your machine: https://www.python.org/downloads/

1. Run pip3 install -r ./requirements.txt to install pytesseract

2. Update simple-tesseract-example.py or all-png-in-dir.py with the proper path for your directory structure.

3. Running

   • Run python3 ./simple-tesseract-example.py to extract text from the specified image file

   OR

   • Run python3 ./all-png-in-dir.py to extract text from all png files in the specified directory